Running Mac OS X on x86 PC!

[S.MULLA]

a new emulator called PearPC seems to be able to run OS X on x86 machines:

http://pearpc.sourceforge.net/index.html

Check out the screenshots:

http://pearpc.sourceforge.net/screenshots.html

source:aqua-soft.org [forum]

[kairon]

Take a look at my pc

Get that **** out of here you f*g. :rolleyes:

[Phoenix2004]

Um, you can use Virtual PC to run XP on a Mac, but you'll still need OS X since VPC is only a program. You can't boot straight to XP like a PC or anything.And it will be slow since its all being emulated.

Dam! I was hoping for a duel boot system.

[pctuk]

Dam! I was hoping for a duel boot system.

I suppose that, further down the road, it will be possible to create a Linux distro that automatically loads OSX at boot. I think that will be as close as we get to dual booting - although I don't think it will offer any advantages in comparison to running it in the Windows. It will still be emulated.

[tHE pRODiGY 2k2]

poop

[Pootis Spencer]

poop

Thanks for that valid contribution Mr Troll :no: :angry:

[golazo]

poop

wtf.... if your going to spam say something better than that

[BlueDream]

pearpc is piece of ****. it spand me two hours just do nothing but some letters running

[Guest bartekpl]

poop

ROFL. that was a good comment. That helped a us a lot. I'm soo happy we have people like that in this forum.

[mattmatik]

Take a look at my pc

At least edit the Trillian skin so it doesn't display Danimator's name. Instructions come with the skin, for God's sake.

[mgleason007]

pearpc is piece of ****. it spand me two hours just do nothing but some letters running

It's not pearpc's fault you can't RTFM. Plenty of us have gotten Panther to run, and not that slowly either.

[Phoenix2004]

I suppose that, further down the road, it will be possible to create a Linux distro that automatically loads OSX at boot. I think that will be as close as we get to dual booting - although I don't think it will offer any advantages in comparison to running it in the Windows. It will still be emulated.

Maybe they'll find away to do just that, with a windows os, as well. But I would guess such work would take longer.

[kenieboi1125]

Is there a way to get the TAP driver working for WinXP SP2? I've installed the OpenVPN Driver (beta 2 and every incremential beta after that) to no avail, even after reinstalls and reboots. The network connection is never shown in the network connections folder, nor is it being detected by PearPC. It *DOES* however show up in the device manager. Also obviously there is no ICS option in SP2's connection advanced tab, so all those pretty guides for WinXP are no longer valid for SP2. What can I do at this point to get networking working on PearPC?

[eaglebtc]

I have SP2 and OpenVPN 2.0b2 installed. PearPC runs fine. I don't know what you're doing wrong. :D Maybe I can help you?

First of all, it is not necessary to reboot after installing OpenVPN.

Secondly, make sure you follow the instructions exactly.

Thirdly, ICS will not show up if there are no devices to share the connection with. If you have no other networking devices on your PC (including Firewire) then you won't get ICS.

[KlyX]

Hi

It is much easyier to to Internet Connection with an external proxy.

Just download AnalogX Proxy, set the bind address to 10.0.0.1 and enable HTTP and FTP.

And so you just have to configure the card in OS X and the Proxy there. It's just nice :-)

[R17]

anyone got a mirror of this build?

http://pearpc.net/comments.php?n=53

[Emon]

anyone got a mirror of this build?

http://pearpc.net/comments.php?n=53

here you go. And here's what you have to do to get native CD-Rom support

quote from pearpc.net forum

pci_ide0_slave_installed = 1

pci_ide0_slave_image = "F:\"

pci_ide0_slave_type = "nativecdrom"

Edit that in your config file...Make sure WNASPI32.DLL is in the same folder as PearPC installed

Make sure SPTI is installed in your computer (you also can install programs such as Nero Burning ROM , and other CD-ROM Burnin tool which uses SPTI or do a Google search)

[raduking]

ladies and gentlemen here's my mac :D

[Orson]

The first build of PearPC with sound emulation is out.

This is feature most of you awaited for. This is the first build of This build includes Soundcard emulation , so it enables users to output sound from the client operting system such as MacOS X

from pearpc.net

Download here

[TrickFinlay2]

cool,thanks for the heads up man

[Pootis Spencer]

The link you posted has an error so here it is again.

Thanks for the heads up.

http://prasys.skidsoftware.com/ppcsound.zip

[Emon]

Please do not use these builds .. The author of these builds is not following the GPL licensing agreement and he/she is not releasing the source to the main developers of PearPC. Can a mod please edit my post and take down the link ?

[Skywing]

so what kinda speed advances has this made since the first few versions?

[Menge]

@Emon, these builds are made from code pulled from the CVS and applied with a publicly available patch to the code (on sourceforge). the source IS available. the builds themselves have nothing to do with who's coding it. you might want to check the PearPC sourceforge page

@Skywing, depends on which was the last build you tested :p the sound build is kinda chuggy for me. but the non sound build is awesome (744MHz G3)

[Knight']

Is this emulation ALL done in the CPU? Can the graphics/vectoring be offloaded into the GPU yet? Is that where the project is heading?

[Menge]

CPU emu = done on CPU and some of it is being moved to special x86 extensions (MMX, SSE, 3dnow!)

Video emu = currently on CPU. there are plans to move this to video hardware. but very little has been mentioned in the devel-list about this

Sound emu = currently seems to be done in CPU. there's not much special on this so it's not much use moving to hardware accel on this. dunno. they're emulating a simple sound card.